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After enjoying a hearty lunch with lots of seafood, Veronica and Ervas finally decided to dive into the turbulent waters.

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Of course, the beach was chaotic, the waves were strong and constantly hitting the ground, no normal person would ever try to swim there, as they would easily be crushed against the seabed or something by the strength and force of the waves.

"Ervas, this looks kind of dangerous…. What if your little head ends up hitting the seabed?" asked Jason.

"Don't worry, that won't happen, and even if it does, I am sure that I can survive… My skull is pretty hard," said Ervas.

"But you are still a toddler though…" said Jason.

"Well there is no problem in going on my own, but Ervas wants to come and help, so I can't reject him, even less when he looks at me with that cute face," said Veronica, glaring at the expressionless face of Ervas.

"Cute face?" he asked, wondering if Veronica was seeing things that were not there or something.

Maybe being an Undead had given her strange perceptions of reality through her vision.

However, it was better to simply forget that and continue with the main topic.

"Yes, I will go, and there is no way you are stopping me, father," said Ervas with resolve.

"Eh? Alright, alright, don't get angry…" said Jason.

"I am not angry, but filled with resolve," said Ervas… he really wanted to swim in the sea!

"Don't worry, I will go with them too," said Kireina at their side.

"I don't think that is very reassuring, lady Kireina…" said Jason.

"Eh? Maybe! Fufu" laughed Kireina.

"Don't worry Jason, we got all these guys to guide us, they will lead us to the treasures! …and ruins of ships," said Veronica, as she made all the Dead Spirits visible through the Visualization Death Attribute Magic Spell.

Jason noticed all of the Dead Spirits of varied shapes and sizes, they were so many that even when he had a Spirit himself, he was not able to completely see them all…

When Veronica made them all visible he was spooked and almost jumped off the place he was, the number of Dead Spirits in here was… tremendous.

It was almost ridiculous!

They were hundred after hundreds of Dead Spirits!

Just how many people died here and then were tied to this place?

Their deaths must have been quite terrible for them to persist for so long, to the point that many ended up accumulating.

There were some fresh-looking dead spirits, but there were also some very old ones, that were almost unrecognizable in their shape due to how they barely remembered how they saw themselves as… many just resembled large lumps of phantom and soul, without defined shapes…

"I-I see… I am leaving you my son then… guys," said Jason, trying to be open-minded with the dead, as they all groaned with strange groans one after another as if cheering.

"Alright, you guys keep around killing giant monsters or something, let's go!" said Veronica, as she grabbed Ervas and Kireina and dived into the water!

SPLASH!

The trio quickly delved into the cold waters, seeing the beautiful depths.

Although it was incredibly dark, all of them could easily see through the darkness, noticing the large forests of enormous and colorful corals deep within the seafloor, the bright sand, the large seagrass, and algae waving by the strong force of the water, all of it decorated with many deep-sea stone formations of all kinds, fish, crabs, giant monsters, Undead, and many ruins of boats and ships, which were all being covered in coral, algae, mollusks, and lots of ghosts and dead spirits.

Because they were obviously in the depths of the sea, they began to speak through the No-Attribute Magic Spell Telepathy.

"Wow, this place is pretty," said Kireina.

"The place is quite soothing, I wish we could stay in here for a while," said Ervas, feeling relaxed.

"Indeed, and there is a ton of materials to pick from…" said Veronica.

"Though I don't think you can keep your breath for so long?" asked Kireina.

"I am sure I could keep it for a while… I think I can actually do this," said Ervas, as he used his Psychokinesis to create a transparent bubble over his head.

"Ehh? I want one too!" said Veronica.

"Okay," said Ervas.

Ervas then created a Psychokinesis bubble over Veronica's head and Kireina's head, although these two did not need to breathe like him…

Maybe one day Ervas could get a Merman Bloodline and evolve gills… but that was for the far future, as he was still not yet reaching max level on his Rank, which has been stuck for months now.

Ervas and Veronica really needed a big challenge to get enough EXP now, they had advanced way too fast and now they had been stuck through their development.

Well, not really, as they were still training their skills, abilities, and more, while letting their allies grow stronger, so it could be said that they never truly stopped growing stronger.

And they were also practicing something named "cultivation" that Kireina taught them off-camera, which they used to nourish their souls to make them more refined and stronger.

Veronica was also constantly eating new materials, so her armor was getting stronger and stronger… and Ervas was slowly growing too.

And to top it all, they were also slowly stockpiling more and more Skill Points, to the point where they had over 100.000 now, and they were planning to stockpile even more, which they would use to max out some Bloodline Skill Trees (for Ervas), and Divine Soul Fragment Skill Trees (for Veronica).

In fact, they were planning in using these Skill Points for a while now, so they would soon get a nice powerup.

But for now, they admired the beauty of the deep sea while beating to death some insolent monsters that came to chomp them as if they were tiny fish.

"Maybe they wouldn't come here if you two didn't look like fish," said Ervas, glaring at Veronica and Kireina who had shapeshifted into beautiful mermaids.

"Eeeh? This is the most hydrodynamic shape!" said Veronica.

"Indeed, this is the peak performance we can get deep underwater," said Kireina.

"Is that so…?" asked Ervas with an expressionless face.

"Yeah! Don't you remember when we learned about Earth's evolutionary history? This shape of the fishtail has convergently evolved like three or four times in completely different animals!" said Veronica.

Indeed, the shape of the fish body was incredibly good for underwater swimming and had convergently evolved several times through the history of Earth's life.

Convergent evolution was the term used when completely different lifeforms evolved similar traits without being related at all nor being of the same species or evolution tree, such as Dolphins, who were mammals evolving hydrodynamic, fish-like bodies similar to sharks and other large fish, without actually being fish at all.

However, this information was perhaps completely useless, as Ervas did not care about this anymore, and Veronica and Kireina were clearly messing around, probably wanting to look like cute mermaids for some reason…

The trio kept diving deep into the water, finally reaching the floor as they saw many shiny things over the sand…

"Hm? Oh, you guys were right! There is indeed a treasure here!" said Veronica, glancing at the small golden nuggets lying over the sand, alongside the brilliant red, green, and blue gems.

"See?! This is the treasure we stole from the other ship! Only for us to meet our end by the deadly Kraken! That accursed beast…!" said the ghost captain.

"WHAT?! So you were the ones that stole your treasure! We really worked hard for it, you damn pirate!" roared a sailor ghost.

"Come at me! I will slice your head off your neck! Yarr!" answered captain, trying to slice the head of the man using his phantom and shaping it as a blade… but both of them could not really deal damage to each other.

"Alright guys stop fighting and come help us," said Veronica.

"Yes my lady!" they said, completely forgetting everything and their conflicts, Veronica's charm over them was immense!

The Captain Ghost was named Blackeye, and the Sailor Ghost was named Gordon, they were at least a few hundred years old, the pirate said he had crossed all the seas of the world with his ship, while the sailor said he used to be part of the marine groups that once worked for Seashore, which were formed by the old aristocrats to fend off Pirate Raids which sometimes occurred in those old times…

Both of them knew the direction of their former ships, guiding the trio as Veronica began to save all the large-sized pieces of ships she found around inside her Soul, which also ended flooding a bit of her soul with the seawater that came inside… Which made her wonder if she would empty the seas with her soul, but that would be way too impossible… for now.

"Here, my lady! This is the furious Sea Lion! My most loyal companion! These are his resting grounds, he has been waiting for the opportunity to one day travel through the seas once more!" said Blackeye, showing Veronica the enormous ship he once commanded, which was broken in half and filled with sea life.

"Ooh! Amazing, let us get in, it's pretty big!" said Veronica.

"Alright then… Oh? There is a lot of sea urchins in here! How long has it been since I ate some? Let us pick some!" said Kireina, using her spatial magic spell Pocket Dimension, to save tons of sea urchins.

"Oh, are those skeletons?" asked Ervas, glancing at the interior of the Sea Lion Ship.

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